Photos: Tuesday’s Atlas 5 rollout

The 330-foot tall mobile service tower is rolled away from the United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral’s pad 37B on launch day.

An impromptu repair job Thursday appears to have stopped a leak in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station, and the crew was back on its normal schedule Friday carrying out research and making preparations for the arrival of a Japanese cargo ship next month.

The next Delta 4-Heavy rocket was raised vertical Friday at Cape Canaveral, signaling the start of a comprehensive series of pre-flight tests before liftoff next year with a top secret U.S. government spy satellite.